1. Executive Function
How to set your binder

2. Write your name on your binder!
Step 1
Write your name on your binder!
Front, Side & Back
DO NOT DRAW/DOODLE ALL OVER IT!!

3. OR… if your binder has an inside flap, it can go there!
Step 2: Schedule
Your schedule should be the very FIRST thing you see when you open your binder. Use a sheet protector to make sure you have it all year long.
OR… if your binder has an inside flap, it can go there!

4. Step 3: Color Coordinate
Color coordinate your dividers.
FIRST -LIME GREEN: For Home/For School
DARK GREEN: Science
TEAL: Social Studies
BLUE: Language Arts
PURPLE: Math
DARK ORANGE: PE & Health
LIGHT ORANGE: Electives (Art, Research, Intensive Reading...)
LAST - YELLOW: Notebook Paper
All DOUBLE POCKET folders should be first, followed by the single pocket then the sheet protector.

5. Step 4: Stickers
The LIME GREEN folder, regardless of your schedule will be your HOME folder.
On the DOUBLE POCKET lime green folder, put the “HOME Important Papers for my Parents” sticker on the front and the sticker that reads: “SCHOOL Important Papers for my Teachers” on the back
On the SINGLE POCKET lime green folder, you will put the sticker titled “Executive Skills.”
Then put these in your binder.

6. Step 5: Stickers Continued
The next dividers should be your first period class…
6th Graders have PE so this should be the DARK ORANGE DIVIDERS
On the DOUBLE SIDED folder, you will put the sticker that says: “FRONT POCKET Homework to Complete/Homework to turn in)” on the front
On the back of that divider place the sticker that reads: “BACK POCKET Returned Work/Graded Work”

7. Step 6: Notes Sticker
On the SINGLE POCKET folder of the same color, place the sticker that reads: “NOTES”

8. Step 7: SHEET Protector
Behind the two colored dividers you will have a sheet protector…you will put the sticker labeled: “LONG TERM PROJECTS Syllabus, Rubrics”

9. Step 8: finish stickers DARK GREEN: Science TEAL: Social Studies
Double Pocket: “FRONT POCKET Homework to Complete / Homework to turn in)” and “BACK POCKET Returned Work/Graded Work”
Single Pocket: “NOTES”
Sheet Protector: “LONG TERM PROJECTS Syllabus, Rubrics”
TEAL: Social Studies
BLUE: Language Arts

10. Step 9: finish stickers PURPLE: Math
Double Pocket: “FRONT POCKET Homework to Complete / Homework to turn in)” and “BACK POCKET Returned Work/Graded Work”
Single Pocket: “NOTES”
Sheet Protector: “LONG TERM PROJECTS Syllabus, Rubrics”
LIGHT ORANGE: Electives (Art, Research, Intensive Reading...)
LAST - YELLOW: Notebook Paper

11. Step 10: Organize Dividers and Paper Protectors
Now that ALL of your dividers are labeled, place them inside of your binder in order of your class schedule.
Be sure that the LIME GREEN folders are first, and the YELLOW are last.
Notebook paper should be in the very back of your binder.